…Important notification – ICTS HPC downtime in July
Notification of downtime NB,
please read this!:
This serves as initial notification of the Sunday 22nd July data
centre shut down in 6 weeks time.
The ICTS data centres will be shut down completely on Sunday the
22nd of…
Folding software
We've installed two new software packages, NASP-1.5 and UNAfold 3.8.
NASP (Nucleic Acid Structures Predictor) predicts the most probable secondary structures evident within a set of aligned nucleic acid sequences and was written by three UCT researchers, J.Y. Semegni, R.…
CPU hours breakdown
Below is a graph of the CPU hours consumed to date on all of our clusters. We've broken down the usage per department or research group.
Below is a breakdown of the SAGrid CPU 13,543 hours performed on the ZA-UCT-ICTS…
Below is a breakdown of the SAGrid CPU 13,543 hours performed on the ZA-UCT-ICTS…HPC Winter School
The Centre for High Performance Computing will be hosting the 2012 HPC Winter School at the University of Free State and will run from Monday 2 July to Saturday 7 July 2012. Registration ends on the 7 June 2012. More…
First citation
Today we received our first citation. It's taken about 18 months, which is longer than expected, however we're extremely pleased and are hoping for another two citations by end of July. The paper was co-written by Dr Olivier and Dr…
From vision to reality
This
week we installed five new servers bringing our core count to 208.
In 2009 we were asked to develop a five year road map of HPC at UCT. Given our inexperience we focused on the two most obvious resources,
HPC School 2012
The CHPC invites applications from suitably qualified candidates to attend the above HPC school and enter the competition. Its purpose is to introduce South African students to fundamental knowledge of high performance computing techniques and select regional teams for the
…HyPhy in hi-fidelity
HyPhy is an open-source software package for the analysis of genetic sequences using techniques in phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and machine learning. We installed HiPhy a while back but could not get it to run correctly in MPI mode. It took…
Autodock
We've installed Autodock4.2 on the cluster. It's a popular molecular modeling simulation package and is one of the most cited docking packages in the research community. We've installed both the 32 and 64 bit versions.
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